Episodes

  • First they came for the cigarettes

    First they came for the cigarettes
    Nov 17 2025
    Simon Clark, director of smokers’ rights group Forest, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the EU’s crackdown on nicotine, the panic over childhood obesity and the long history of BBC bias. Get your tickets to the premiere of Think Before You Post, on Tuesday 25 November in London: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • The British thirst for freedom

    The British thirst for freedom
    Nov 2 2025
    James Price, writer and former government adviser, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss whether Brits are more libertarian than the politicians think, why Rachel Reeves is going after the gambling industry, and James’s role in the ousting of Oxford Union president-elect George Abaraonye. Watch Think Before You Post, our documentary on the rise of the British speech police, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0smxO4WiOA Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • Filterless fags and drunk-driving licences

    Filterless fags and drunk-driving licences
    Oct 23 2025
    We returned to the Battle of Ideas festival last weekend for a very special live show. Patrick Christys, Gawain Towler and Dominic Frisby joined Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the nanny-state plot to make smoking more harmful, Joe Wicks’s ultra-processed grift and why Zoomers are dodging after-work drinks. Plus, the audience weighed in with their questions – and bans. Not to be missed. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • The nanny state can BOGOF

    The nanny state can BOGOF
    Oct 8 2025
    Candice Holdsworth joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the ban on ‘buy one, get one free’ deals, the crackdown on shouting in the countryside, and the cost of Net Zero. Plus, Lucy Letby Corner. See the Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 19 October, featuring special guests Patrick Christys and Dominic Frisby. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=SPIKED Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • What’s the point of the Lib Dems?, with Julia Hartley-Brewer

    What’s the point of the Lib Dems?, with Julia Hartley-Brewer
    Sep 26 2025
    Talk’s Julia Hartley-Brewer joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Ed Davey’s illiberal anti-democrats, why we shouldn’t arrest politicians for lying, Chris’s encounter with his Letbyist critics, and the case for banning air fresheners. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • Reform vs the nanny state, with Mike Graham

    Reform vs the nanny state, with Mike Graham
    Sep 8 2025
    Talk’s Mike Graham joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, recorded at Reform UK’s conference. They discuss whether Nigel Farage will take on the public-health puritans, the Angela Rayner reshuffle and the case for banning cyclists. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • Can you be addicted to junk food?

    Can you be addicted to junk food?
    Aug 23 2025
    Stand-up comedian Paul Cox joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss calls to lower the drink-driving limit, how fat shaming can help you lose weight, and why Lucy Letby is still guilty. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 mins
  • The state we’re in, with Steve Baker

    The state we’re in, with Steve Baker
    Aug 9 2025
    Steve Baker, former Tory MP and ‘Brexit hard man’, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Labour’s disastrous first year, what the Tories can do to recover, and if Reform has the answers to Britain’s woes. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins